That’s a pretty badass collection of shortcuts — I didn’t know most of them!

Neat shortcut: ⌘-click on the Auto Layout padding field to adjust all paddings.

“Learn all about the redesigned Auto Layout. We’ll walk you through how to use the new properties panel and on-screen controls, as well as showcase the new layout features like absolute positioning, negative spacing, and more.”

Layout FM podcast host Rafa is joined by special guests Joel and Oscar from Figma to talk about their work designing AutoLayout V4.

Miggi shows how to make a reusable and flexible tooltip component set using Auto Layout, absolute positioning, constraints, and component properties.

Joey Banks creates a card layout similar to iOS’s Wallet app with negative values within an Auto Layout container.

Miggi plays with component properties, Auto Layout slots method, and Interactive Components to make some fun modular content prototypes.

Cool minor improvement — default Auto Layout value now reflects the Big Nudge number instead of being hardcoded to 10 pixels. You can change it in the Preferences → Nudge amount.

Miggie with a pro tip on Auto Layout — typing in ​“auto” as the spacing value will change the spacing mode from Packed to Space Between.

Molly Hellmuth discusses five major changes to the Auto Layout introduced at Config 2022.

Designers Joel Miller and Oscar Nilsson worked on the new Auto Layout together. In this thread, Joel talks about some of his favorite things about this release.

”We’ve announced some new updates on Auto Layout at Config 2022, including negative spacing, absolute position, and more! In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through what’s new and what’s changed.”

Hosts of the Design Details podcast, Brian Lovin and Marshall Bock, cover all of the exciting new releases from Config 2022 and do a deep dive into the new version of Auto Layout.

Anton Kuznetsov shares two workarounds for creating negative spacing with Auto Layout. The easy way is to use Space Between, but there are some limitations, so Anton offers using a frame as a wrapper.

Dan Hollick shares a few pros and cons of using Spacer components vs. Auto Layout.

Nice concept of what one of the features in Auto Layout 4 may be. I’d definitely love to see this!

A few good tips on using Auto Layout by Danny Sapio.

Molly shares a few takeaways from recreating a responsive Asana dashboard in Figma.

Danny Sapio is showing how Auto Layout can be used to create a scalable and flexible interface.

“Creating components with automated sizing behavior saves a lot of time during the process. They also let us think more like a developer that has to implement the real application. That is why it is essential to master Constraints and Auto Layout in Figma.”